Therates circumscriptus Moravec and Wiesner, 1999

Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, Insecta Mundi 2013 (315), pp. 1-86 : 15-16

9. Therates circumscriptus Moravec and Wiesner

( Fig. 69 )

Therates circumscriptus Moravec and Wiesner 1999: 173 , 174, f. 1 - 3.

Therates circumscriptus . Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81.

Type depository. Holotype male in NHMW.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: (L)AOS, Louang Namtha pr., (2) 1°09’N 101°19’E, (N)amtha Muang Sing, (5)- 31.v.1997, 900- 1200 m, (V)ít Kubá leg. [printed, white, first letter of each line missing]; Holotype THERATES circumscriptus Moravec and Wiesner [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of short humeral lunule and elytral apex which lacks maculae.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.4 mm (n=1). Female unknown. Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 73 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally to elytral shoulders, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, all the other antennal segments brownish. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two longish bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, nearly absent in the apical third ( Fig. 70 ). Apex with lateral and sutural corner, slightly recurved between. Maculation yellow, composed of a short humeral lunule connected with a short basal dot and a central dot which is acutely angled inwards toward the suture ( Fig. 71 ). Central dot and base of humeral lunule are light yellow colored, the remainder brownish yellow. Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 72 ) curved, with roundish tip distally, total length 1.6 mm.

Distribution. Laos (Louangnamtha).

Figures

Figures 61-73. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 61-68. bannokcolus Sawada and Wiesner, 1999. 61) Habitus, male from Khammouan (JWGC). 62) Punctures of elytra, male from Khammouan (JWGC). 63-65. Maculae of elytra. 63) Male from Khammouan (JWGC). 64), 65) Female from Khammouan (JWGC). 66) Left lateral view of aedeagus, from Khammouan (JWGC). 67-68. Labra. 67) Male from Khammouan (JWGC). 68) Female from Khammouan (JWGC). 69-73. circumscriptus Moravec and Wiesner, 1999, holotype male. 69) Habitus. 70) Punctures of elytra. 71) Maculae of elytra. 72) Left lateral view of aedeagus. 73) Labrum.